Professor Jennifer Funk roots her climate-change research in plant adaptability
Assistant Professor Jennifer Funk, center, works with Chapman research technician Julie Larson and UC senior farm maintenance engineer Chris Martinez at the greenhouse site. Botanist Jennifer Funk,...
View ArticleBudding scientists find field work to their liking with Chapman professor
The Orange High School students helping a Chapman University professor study the drought’s impact on California native plants knew they were contributing to important work and learning research...
View ArticleMathematicians from across the globe gather at Chapman for conference
Chapman University faculty from Schmid College of Science & Technology hosted a six day conference titled, “Mathematics, Signal Processing and Linear Systems: New Problems and Directions.” The...
View ArticleAlumna expands Chapman connections, thanks to Biology of Cancer course
She didn’t expect the tears and nostalgia. After all, it had been nearly 40 years since Susan Reyburn Lemieux ’77 had visited Chapman University. Driving back to campus this fall, she imagined things...
View ArticleBiannual Student Research Day offers opportunity to showcase projects
Carson Tinucci explains his research project to another student Chapman students, staff, faculty and visitors packed the Sandhu Conference Center Wednesday afternoon to view a diverse array of more...
View ArticlePresident Daniele Struppa to record first podcast
Chapman University President Daniele Struppa, Ph.D., will record his first podcast in San Diego Thursday evening as other math enthusiasts from across the globe gather in the same city for the 2018...
View ArticleConference Celebrates Chapman Professor’s Pioneering Concepts in Physics
Chapman Professor Yakir Aharonov addresses the crowd Dozens of researchers from across the world joined Chapman University faculty and students for an Anniversary Conference celebrating the work of...
View ArticleChapman Physicist Wins Top Award and Joins the Korean Academy of Science and...
Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., has received several prestigious awards this year. The Professor and Director of Chapman’s Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling and Observations (CEESMO), recently...
View ArticleFrom the Warmth of the Earth
AMID THE SCENT of spruce trees in northern Minnesota, an odd sight rises from the peatland bog. Ten silolike enclosures nearly 30 feet tall and 40 feet across dot a small area of the 2,800-acre Marcell...
View ArticleScience Students Begin Building Their First Professional Network
Schmid College recently hosted its inaugural Grand Challenges Initiative (GCI) Networking Event, where first-year students in the GCI spent the morning making connections with industry professionals...
View ArticleThe Wonders of Slime
The first time she saw one, Lauren Friend ’19 was repelled. “Maybe even disgusted,” she says. But over time, she has developed a healthy respect for her research subject, the humble hagfish, which...
View ArticleThe Clot Thickens
Andrew Lyon’s research world revolves around stretchy bits of science 10,000 times smaller than a human cell. But those nanoparticles hold oversized promise as breakthroughs in the lives of everyone...
View ArticleIn Touch with the Nanometric World
Remember your first explorations into microscopic worlds? Perhaps it was in grade school, where a drop of pond water teemed with tiny organisms that made science come alive. Chapman University...
View ArticleFounding Dean for Fowler School of Engineering Announced
The dean who guided Chapman University’s science programs into a period of record growth has been selected to head up the University’s new Fowler School of Engineering, slated to open in fall 2020....
View ArticleA Cut Above
Even as the ceremonial ribbon was being cut outside, students and faculty were already toiling inside, some in the pursuit of cutting-edge advances. Students in General Chemistry I tested nascent...
View ArticleArtful Explorers
Wherever art and science share synchronous orbits, chances are Lia Halloran will be there, contributing momentum. Halloran, an associate professor in the Department of Art as well as a practicing...
View ArticleFrom Chapman to NASA
Lauren Friend ’19 launched her Chapman University student experience to new heights when she scored her dream internship with NASA. But when she packed up and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to join the...
View ArticleBrain Institute Receives Over $7 Million for Research on Neurophilosophy of...
The newly-minted Institute for Interdisciplinary Brain and Behavioral Science (The Brain Institute) at Chapman University, with Dr. Uri Maoz as project leader, is the recipient of a total of $7.04...
View ArticleAt the Core of Understanding
When your research project invites colleagues to think anew about questions that have been debated for centuries, you learn to welcome the unexpected. Like when you get a call out of the blue from a...
View ArticleThe Science of Shelf Life
When Costco recently introduced a 27-pound tub of mac-and-cheese packets with a 20-year shelf life, the stuff sold out in a day. It’s unclear whether the product was scooped up by doomsday planners or...
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